Doctors worked to rewire her heart.

Amazingly, a week later she was allowed to go home – despite warnings she could be in hospital for a month.

Speaking about Chloe’s open-heart surgery in June, mother-of-four Mrs Bennett said: ‘It was the longest day of my life.

‘Her heart is tiny. It’s amazing how they can operate on something so intricate. It is only the size of a strawberry,’ said the 37-year-old of Gravesend, Kent.

‘The surgeons were amazing and my little Chloe was so tough she pulled through.

‘Now she is doing really well. She has got a scar down her body but she is the happiest baby.